September Update

Shared Leadership Team Membership

As a way of "sharing" and making for a more inclusive process in the Shared Leadership Team, we periodically have agreed to rotating new members onto the Team and giving previous members a break. Last academic year, ERI rotated Cindy Martinez onto the Library's Shared Leadership Team. This year, after serving the Library well for the last couple of years, Louise, Ellen M, and Lorrie will rotate off of SLT. Thanks to all 3 of you VERY MUCH for this service. That means that I will be looking for interested candidates to rotate onto SLT for this academic year (now through end of August 2011). SLT meets twice a month on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays from 9am-11am (sometimes adjourn earlier than 11am).

As a reminder the SLT charge: Aims to design inclusive processes for moving the organization forward. Members will work on achieving the goals of the strategic plan, oversee the budget, act on recommendations from library committees and set policy for the library.

Please contact me by Sept 16 if you are interested in serving or if you have questions.

MOVING COLLECTIONS

As you have probably "heard" PSI is moving the Periodicals. AHEC has changed many of our signs (such as the Periodicals signs), but not all. For example, we are still waiting for the SELF CHECK OUT signs.

NOTE: The Denver Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal have been moved this afternoon. These "popular newspapers" that were in the cubby-type shelving in Periodicals are now on the first 2 sections at the beginning of the Current Periodicals. The newspaper rods have been moved to this area as well. The rest of the newspapers will continue to be in the Current Oversized section which will eventually be in the stationary shelving adjacent to the Compact Shelving in the new area.

Government Publications have been relocated to the 2nd floor, except for Gov Pubs microforms and cd roms which are in cabinets and will eventually all be outside of rm 118 (by north door). We will be moving some study tables into that area on 2nd floor since the Government Publications "footprint" was smaller than the Q-R collections...we gained a bit of space for quiet study.

IDS Update
Maybe there is a light at the end of the Reserves tunnel...
The last several weeks have been very busy for IDS as evidenced by these stats and by the very active Ask Us desk:

Reserves - Created and linked 310 reserve course pages. Scanned and/or linked a total of 1538 documents, 437 of which were newly scanned and created documents.

ILL - Processed 616 borrowing requests. Processed 514 lending requests.

Self-Check is working well for Metro and returning UCD students, and progress is being made on making it work for our entire student body...for CCD students and our new UCD students (the data load to add these new UCD students to our system is close at hand).

Subject Teams
Members of the Subject Teams have been hard at work in a number of areas, including heavy instruction requests, busy Research Help activity in all its formats, numerous faculty and student consultations, e-resources trials, recommendations/negotiations for a new set of EXCITING electronic resources for our collection, ...plus a suite of goals for this year and next focusing on collaborating with the campus faculty...are keeping us in high gear.

Work to turn the old CAR room into a Student Appointment/Consultation area is proceeding. We have purchased a combined copier, fax, printer, scanner to replace the separate machines that take up most of the space in the CAR room now and it will be delivered soon. IT (Doug) is working setting up 2 dual monitor stations in the room. Therefore, when students make appointments and need a longer consultation than can be effectively provided in IM or at the Research Help desk, we will be able to use this room for these student consultations (in addition to doing consultations in private offices etc). Of course, faculty consultations can be held in the new Faculty Room (door code 2323). Only campus faculty and library staff are allowed in the Faculty Room.